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Ten theses on President-elect Obama
Power Line — ... Iowa breakthrough and his New Hampshire loss, this theme had legs. 3. In the course of the Democratic caucuses and primaries Obama emerged as a messianc figure come to redeem the time. He is a quasi-religious figure for non-believers, playing to the same market that made films such as "Ghost" and "The Sixth Sense" such enormous successes. It is an element of the Obama campaign that many observers noted and that I explored in "The return of Sister Flute." 4. Obama's claim to represent a new poltics ending partisanship and division is as pure a product ...

Obama's Win: A Death-Knell For 1960s Cultural Politics?
TPM Election Central — ... And that had been a dominant Obama theme from first to last. The claim that the "smallness of our politics" is not suited to the enormity of this historic moment appeared nearly two years ago, when Obama gave his announcement speech in Springfield, Illinois. And he repeated it again yesterday in Florida. ...

Andy Kroll: Obama vs. the Lobbyists: A Scorecard for the Future of American Politics
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Never short on chutzpah, Emanuel made it clear: it was Us vs. Them in a "multiple-front fight." A "scorecard at the end" would determine winners and losers. As a candidate on the campaign trail, Obama himself regularly decried the undue influence of moneyed interests and lobbyists. Announcing his candidacy on February 10, 2007, for instance, he declared it "time to turn the page" on the "cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play." And on January 21, 2009, the very day he came into office, ...

Obama vs. the Lobbyists
Commondreams.org Views — ... scorecard at the end of which ones we won and which ones we didn't, but every one of those policy challenges have been initiated by us." Never short on chutzpah , Emanuel made it clear: it was Us vs. Them in a "multiple-front fight." A "scorecard at the end" would determine winners and losers. As a candidate on the campaign trail, Obama himself regularly decried the undue influence of moneyed interests and lobbyists. Announcing his candidacy on February 10, 2007, for instance, he declared it "time to turn the page" on the "cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special ...